Transport Supply and Demand

Transport ______ is the capacity of specific transportation infrastructures and modes over a time period.

• demand

• supply

• services

• personnel

Transport _______ is mobility needs for the same time period, even if they are only partially satisfied

• infrastructure

• supply

• demand

• personnel

Transportation is a service that must be utilized ________ since, unlike the goods and resources it often carries, the transport service itself cannot be stored

• later

• immediately

• slowly

• gradually

Without ________, infrastructures would be useless, and without _________, mobility could not occur or would not be cost-effective

• mobility, infrastructures

• people, infrastructures

• mobility, transmission

• teleportation, personnel

Transportation supply is expressed in terms of:

• infrastructures, services & network

• regularity, dependability, reliability

• punctuality, comprehensiveness, costs

• affodability, capability, costs

UPS, FedEx, DHL, and small operations such as trucking and local delivery companies are examples of _______.

• First party transportation companies

• 2nd party transportation companies

• 3rd party transportation companies

• 4th party transportation companies

Motorists using private cars or large industrial companies owning a fleet of trucks or rail wagons are examples of _______.

• Own account transportation

• Multiple accounts transportation

• Single occupant account

• Multiple occupants account

Transport demand is generated by the economy, composed of persons, institutions, and industries, which generate the mobility of passengers and freight.

• True

• False

A common measure expressing the realized passenger transport demand as it compares a transported quantity of passengers with a distance over which it gets carried is called _______.

• tonne-km

• cubic metre-miles

• passenger-km or passenger-miles

• passenger-capacity

For road and rail, transport supply often depends on_______

• capacity of the routes and vehicles (modal supply).

• number of routes and terminals (modal supply).

• frequency of routes and infrastructure (modal supply).

• capacity of vehicles and number of available routes